Dub Collision mix: Current Figures (slow music 2011)

Posted on December 11, 2011 by admin

Current Figures slow music 2011

1 Glenn Jones – Menotomy River Blues 1:30
2 Barn Owl – Midnight Tide 5:16
3 Ellen Fullman – Flowers 9:56
4 Erik Wollo – Silent Currents 2, Part 6 3:15
5 Julia Holter – The Falling Age 9:14
6 Tim Hecker – Sketch 3 1:20
7 Trouble Books & Mark McGuire – Life in a Peaceful New World 4:47
8 Aidan Baker & Kevin Micka – Figures 14:42
9 A Produce & Loren Nerell – String Theory 3:54
10 Nauseef, Mori, Parker, Laswell – Majuu 3:33
11 thisquietarmy – The Pacific Theater 11:58

Imagine what a very long slow sweep of a wide brush laden with several shades of paint looks like. This mix captures a sweep of slow music, a favorite genre known–otherwise–by different labels. Yet, as you have the opportunity to hear in this bringing together of some of my favorite brush strokes from recordings of the last year or so, it all could be termed sound painting too.

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Sonic Touch Show #3

Posted on December 5, 2011 by admin

Synthtopia iPad/IOS tag

Sonicstate @youtube

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Dub Collision mix: Fire Farewell (world songs 2011)

Posted on December 3, 2011 by admin

Fire Farewell

fire farewell

1 Kaysha | Bien plus fort que les mots 4:03
2 Tiê | Já É Tarde 2:45
3 Aurelio | Bisien Nu 3:35
4 Malika Zarra | Leela 4:24
5 Anelis | Bola com os amigos 4:47
6 Hindi Zahra | The Man I Love (Unplugged) 3:19
7 Banco de Gaia | Farewell Ferengistan 6:13
8 Chico Barque | Nina 3:07
9 Hamilton de Holanda & Andre Mehmari | Bebê 1:34
10 Menahan Street Band | Make the Road by Walking 2:59
11 Seu Jorge & Almaz | Cristina (Vou Ver Cristina) 3:09
12 Boban i Marko Markovi Orchestra | Caravan 3:18
13 Dengue Fever | Family Business 3:38
14 Arat Kilo (f. Rokia Traoré) | Get A Chew 6:39
15 Jadid Ensemble | Llamar 3:43
16 Karsh Kale | Man On Fire 4:41
17 Sussan Deyhim | Fire Within 6:07
18 Hazmat Modine & Kronos Quartet | Dead Crow 3:45

‘thrilling songs recap’ part one, World music. Lots to dance to here!

Bonus, Iness Mezel.

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Year End Approach

Posted on December 2, 2011 by admin

Matana Roberts

…kind of a housekeeping note. This year I am much more prepared to assess and feature my favorite recordings of the year. The principle change is, like similarly indulgent net musos, I’ve set the end point for the year in music to be the end of November. This outs my own efforts more than a month ahead of where such efforts usually are at.

Short of providing the year-end wrap up, I’m also going to present a series of Dub Collision podcasts/mixes that throw together individual tracks I’ve been struck by; sort of a teaser you can download and enjoy.

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Dub Collision mix: Too Many Drivers

Posted on December 1, 2011 by admin

Dub Collision m ix Too Many Drivers

1 Allman Brothers – One Way Out 5:08
2 Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead – Gotta Serve Somebody 5:50
3 Matthew Sweet – Back Of A Car (Big Star) 2:32
4 Willie DeVille – Miracle 4:50
5 Jesse Ed Davis – Washita Love Child 3:49
6 ‘Til Tuesday – Voices Carry 4:20
7 Dinosaur Jr. – Anodyne 4:49
8 True Believers – Hard Road 4:04
9 Georgia Satellites – Red Light 2:53
10 Better Days – Too Many Drivers 3:22
11 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Call Me The Breeze 5:58
12 Los Lobos – Route 90 3:22
13 Cream ’2007 – Crossroads 4:25
14 John Hiatt – The Crush 4:11
15 Robert Palmer – Sneakin’ Sally Thru The Alley 4:25
16 Little Feat – Apolitical Blues 3:49
17 James Gang – Walk Away 3:35
18 Pete Townsend – Gonna Get Ya 6:22

Drivin’ tunes for my bro.

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Acoustic. Note, also, the anthemic aspects.

Posted on November 30, 2011 by admin


The Staves; debut due next year; free tastes arrived already

If you had asked, me say about five years ago, whether or not the hippie folk rock of my youth would ever burst through into a completely contemporary iteration, I would have cynically reminded you music culturistas have sustained their reaction against so-called hippie music for twenty-five years.

This reaction has been going on so long that we can nowadays find it remarkable (for example) that Wilco or The Jayhawks, folk rock exponents in the second wave, have managed to ply their trade on the margins of guilded respectability for over 20 years. Face it: only with guilded respectability is the listener relieved of being accused of favoring (at least) mildly uncool, bourgeois, regressive musical artistry.

Then, amazingly, the reaction dissipated without issuing even an audible gasp. Alternately, and more likely, I haven’t been paying anywhere near enough attention. Yes, I was rather struck by the debut of The Fleet Foxes.

Upshot is I get it–it’s the new golden age. I’m now tracking its antecedents beyond the lucky accidents, (such as Or, The Whale, Last Town Chorus,) I’ve gathered up over the years.

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Dawes

Posted on November 28, 2011 by admin

Dawes, Nothing Is Wrong. Laurel Canyon soft rock, it is said, is on the up and up. This is funny branding from the perspective of those long in the tooth. Wait, has Silver Lake fallen to the side?

However, the Dawes’ second record is quite entertaining, and, the lead video here is at once straight-forward and deliciously laced with odd visual references.

Compare this with the movie Laurel Canyon from 2002, a flick itself a very long way from somebody deciding whether or not Graham Nash is the ticket.

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iPad Music Show

Posted on November 25, 2011 by admin

An iPad has come into my house under the care of the mrs.. She’s let me put apps on it, yet understands I am holding out for IPad 3 in March. Meanwhile, I’ve really loaded the iPhone 4S up for the purposes of musical experimentation.

I have good will power, umm usually, so I can get away wit the tantalizing videos from SonicState. I will not b u y t h u m b m u s i c right n o w.

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Kamelmauz: Limber I Monos Om (mini ep)

Posted on November 11, 2011 by admin

Kamelmauz Limber I Monos Om

This new set follows from the surging iPhone band-in-a-hand moment. It refers to a truly odd collaboration made possible by the strange new world of the iPhone, its so-called apps, and the kinds of sonic exploring the technology makes possible. Originally I was just biding my time, waiting for the iPad, and knowing eventually be plugging it into the studio machinery.

But the iPhone came along and with it–soon enough–came a slew of app-driven opportunities, including the most prime ones of all, courtesy of ambient giants Brian Eno and Steve Roach. I have collaborated with each, and with their colleagues, in these two slow, ambient pieces. Almost anybody who has an iPhone knows what I’m speaking of–Bloom, Trope, Air–in the latter case, and, may well also know of the fine Immersion Station app of Steve Roach and Eric Freeman. (Visual mixing is very cool!)

The odd point is that none of my collaborators know they have served as my collaborators! Yet, it was inevitable I was headed toward plugging iPhone/iPad into my digital rig and into Logic and force such collaborations to bear sonic fruit. Several other apps were used; I didn’t keep notes for the ninety minute exercise cum experiment. And, at the end, I did process the tracks in the convolution reverb studio and did a down-and-dirty (what I term,) mixmaster.

The overarching formula for each piece is: Intro (Eno) / Outro (Eno+Roach.)

As always, full digital, free download are available at Kamelmauz-Soundz Bandcamp for the savvy and well-equipped soundnaut.

Intro i

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Band In Your Hand

Posted on November 9, 2011 by admin

apps for iPhone Music Making
iTunes app store come-on

The same week I junked my five year old dumb phone for an iPhone 4s, I’m cruising the app store like a fiend, having prematurely reached the foothills of an artistic vision. You see, I’ve had my eye on an iPad but had decided to wait until iteration #3. I figured spring or fall next year. I had my sights on using it as a musical platform, especially in the ‘generative’ that has blossomed based in the touch screen.

Then my Nokia flip punked out. The T-Mobile sales gal couldn’t arouse herself to try to sell be a Android phone, my muse and wife bought an iPhone, and, two weeks later I stuck my head in a Sprint store and got the last iPhone in their stock.

Checked out all sorts of free and cheap apps and soon enough shards of experimental leavings were flying off my enthusiastic whirling around this band in your hand.

The following facetune took about fifteen minutes to conjure, and then about a half hour in iMovie to assemble and render.

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Madpad app

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